Me, My Shelf and I

Genre: Detective ThrillerSynopsis: When
a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine
archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex
crime scene for Detective Kim Stone. As the bones are
sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than one victim.
The bodies hint at unimaginable horror, bearing the markings of bullet
holes and animal traps. Forced to work alongside Detective
Travis, with whom she shares a troubled past, Kim begins to uncover a
dark secretive relationship between the families who own the land in
which the bodies were found. But while Kim is immersed in one of
the most complicated investigations she’s ever led, her team are caught
up in a spate of sickening hate crimes. Kim is close to revealing the
truth behind the murders, yet soon finds one of her own is in jeopardy -
and the clock is ticking.

Genre: Middle-grade/Psychological/HorrorSynopsis: For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to “fix” the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered. All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back?

Genre: Historical FictionSynopsis: County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her four-year-old grandson, Micheál. The boy cannot walk, or speak, and Nora, mistrustful of the tongues of gossips, has kept the child hidden from those who might see in his deformity evidence of otherworldly interference. Unable to care for the child alone, Nóra hires a fourteen-year-old servant girl, Mary, who soon hears the whispers in the valley about the blasted creature causing grief to fall upon the widow's house. Alone, hedged in by rumour, Mary and her mistress seek out the only person in the valley who might be able to help Micheál. For although her neighbours are wary of her, it is said that old Nance Roche has the knowledge. That she consorts with Them, the Good People. And that only she can return those whom they have taken...

Genre: Romance/FictionSynopsis: This is almost a love story. Ellis
and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long
time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching
themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of
overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows
into something more. But then we fast forward a decade or so, to
find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight.
Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between? This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.